John G. Bennett (1897-1974) was a scientist, revolutionary thinker and spiritual teacher. He began his career in the British Army, and encountered the teacher G.I. Gurdjieff in 1920. He later came to play a central role in the British coal industry in the 1930s and 1940s. After the death of Gurdjieff in 1949, Bennett devoted the remainder of his life to researching and transmitting ancient mystical teachings, and at the time of his death was the Director of the International Academy for Continuous Education, the school he founded in England to pass on to his students what he had found in his 5...